Legami di sangue (o storie da vampiri) fra letteratura e fumetto: la scuola sarda

Andrea Cannas

2024-01-01

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Abstract

The conspicuous intertextual dialogue with the classics of all times and places has often been understood by the scriptwriters and illustrators of comic stories as a practice of ‘cannibalising’ sources. The principle of rewriting is, moreover, the main literary engine for the construction of narratives that are both old and new, like variations on the warp of myths. However one understands it, the prolonged confrontation with the literary dimension tends to leave its mark: indeed, comic strips stories acquire an unprecedented textual depth, which depends substantially on the evidence by which those stories reconnect with the great narrative matrices in which the vast world of fiction is rooted. Here we limit ourselves to proposing three emblematic situations, which constitute as many variants of interaction between comics and the boundless territories of literature.